The Ministry of the Environment is again searching for Finland’s best landscape project. As candidates the Ministry invites projects where landscapes have been successfully managed, protected or designed. The deadline for submitting proposals is 7 September 2018.

The competition, held every two years, is targeted to civil society organisations and local and regional authorities. The projects must already have been implemented and started at least three years ago.

Both traditional and new perspectives are welcome. The projects may concern natural or cultural landscapes, rural or urban environments, lands or waters. The sites may be valuable landscapes or cultural environments, but projects concerned with everyday environments and restoring degraded landscapes are also invited to participate.

The competition will close on 7 September 2018. The winner will be announced at the Landscape Symposium at the House of the Estates in Helsinki on 19 October 2018. Further information and how to participate:

The landscape project chosen as the best in Finland will be the Finnish candidate for the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe. The award is handed out every two years under the European Landscape Convention, which Finland became party to in 2006. The winning projects and all those that participate in the competition promote the objectives of the Landscape Convention and represent exemplary achievements of landscape management in Europe.